Hollowfolk

Hollowfolk

DESCRIPTION: According to their own myths, the hollowfolk were brought to Vacuum by the djinn of Hazzarath, and they’re among the ancestors of the vacuum genasi of Waste of Breath. They were once human, but like their djinni masters, in Vacuum they have dwindled. While the void djinn grew weaker in magic and darkened to a deep midnight-blue, the hollowfolk transformed physically, literally hollowing out. Their eye sockets are empty, as are their mouths. To all appearances, they are empty sacks of skin. Some of them only exist from the front, becoming invisible if seen from the back. Others are flat, and if they turn side on to you, they vanish.

PREFERRED HABITAT: They are pitiful creatures, for the most part, acting as servants to the remaining djinn, or as sad figures dwelling on the outskirts of other settlements.

PHILOSOPHY / SOCIETY: The main danger they present is to those who remain among them for too long, for they will slowly start to hollow out too, losing substance until they too become shells who can only survive on a plane where nothingness and emptiness are substances. A few hollowfolk manage to exist in Sigil, especially near the city’s edge, close to the paradoxical nonexistence created by the Spire that nullifies matter, energy, thought, time, and entropy beyond. Sometimes dwelling in buildings that only exist on one side, the hollowfolk of Sigil live tenuous half-existences on the border of a burg almost as impossible as they are.

COMBAT: Hollowfolk are natural sneaks and backstabbers, using their ability to turn sideways on to effectively disappear from view. They will do this to hide and retreat, or stalk and strike, aiming to make a sneak attack first and then use their kiss of the void ability to drain the life force from their victims, at the same time healing themselves like some kind of hollow vampire.

Stats: [ PF 2e ] Homebrew ‡